Well its about time. For anyone who doesn’t know I have spent the time since my last post to about 1 week ago working for Realtime Worlds.  And in case you have not heard the news the reason I am no longer working for the good people at RTW is that they no longer exist. A sad day, lets all take a moment…

Now the good news. If anyone is looking to hire an intelligent, dedicated, organised and all round awesome individual I am here to fulfil 3 of those 4 requirements.just get in touch and I’ll see what I can do for you.

While I wait for everyone to recover from the shock of those last 2 paragraphs and gather their propositions for employment I have been working to make some changes to the site. First is a new  look. I will be looking to change it in the next few hours but it still needs some tweaks. Last time I tried this everything broke so right now I will just hope for the best. Any feedback is appreciated.

Now for even more good news, I have decided I need a new project. I am going to gather a team to develop a game. I have an idea and a concept but as usual I think I have aimed too big so if you would like to be part of something let me know. I need code, design, art and story writers to work with.  It will at the very least be something to add to your portfolio and at best a cult hit that will take the world by surprise in which case it will also look good in a portfolio. Its win win the way I see it.

I’ll add more information as I get it in a shape that is fit for semi public consumption and will endeavour to keep this updated on at the very least an annual basis.

Advances in stereoscopic displays and methods of interaction have opened up several areas of possible research. This coupled with advances in graphical computing power led to the development of this project.

Wiisualisation is a plugin designed for the open source DICOM viewer Osirix. It was designed to generate 3D medical models from various existing medical scans such as MRI or CT scans. When the model is generated the plugin connects to and accepts input from a wiiMote. The wiiMote is the controller for Nintendo’s recent console release, the Wii. It is aware of both position and motion and so has provided a new novel form of control. The project concentrates on the development of a large stereoscopic display which can be used for group viewings. This would allow for the demonstration of highly detailed medical models in a group learning environment.
It is hoped that well a designed and implemented stereoscopic display coupled with the novel method of control in the form of the wiiMote will result in a more eective means of teaching.

To aid in this outcome research was conducted into how groups learn. It is believed that when groups are presented with new technologies then they become more motivated to learn. It is this particular aspect of groups behaviours when learning which should cause students to be more engaged using Wiisualisation.

And now the best news. You can download the plugin, the thesis and the source code if you want it. Just remember you need to have a Mac and a Wiimote and you need to download Osirix

• Osirix
• Wiisualisation
  
• Thesis
• Source

Any thoughts? leave a comment